DE CIAN , F

The reduced capacity for routine surgery during the COVID-19 outbreak triggers severe consequences on waiting lists, determining their impressive expansion with management costs. The problem immediately burdens patients with urgent issues and cancer, whose number of avoidable deaths indirectly due to COVID-19 is estimated close to that of...

Authors report anatomical and pathophysiologic aspects concerning lymphedema following breast cancer treatment. They underline clinical and lymphoscintigraphic criteria to define lymphedema-risk patients, in whom preventive measures are indicated. They propose a surgical primary prevention, by performing direct lymphatic-venous anastomosis at...

Despite the development of minimal access dissection techniques, use of superficial groin dissection alone, and other recommendations to reduce morbidity in melanoma treatment, the incidence of lymphedema is still significant. The purpose of the current study was to assess the efficacy of microsurgical methods to limit the morbidity of inguinal...